Senate Sgt. at Arms Donald Severance (right) and House Sgt. at Arms, Russell Hosford drop the white hankies during the sine die ritual that officially closed the Florida session on Friday night, May 2

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Bill Cotterell
Democrat correspondent

State legislators approved a $77.1-billion state budget, voted to let doctors prescribe a special blend of medical marijuana that can't get people high, decided undocumented young people should be able to get in-state tuition and adjourned their 2014 session Friday. It passed 102-15 in the House and 40-0 in the Senate.

The ceremonial dropping of handkerchiefs by the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms took place at 10:40 p.m., with hundreds of weary, happy legislators, lobbyists and amused observers clustering around the oval rotunda of the Capitol's fourth floor. It could have ...